1. Run Validate on last quarter, today. Open Accounting → Reporting → FTA Audit File (FAF), set the period and press Validate without generating anything. The error and warning counts tell you how far you are from being ready for a request you cannot schedule.
2. Audit your tax-code mapping against your tax list. Open FAF Tax-Code Mapping and look for two things: a tax created since install with no row, and 0% EX bound to anything other than ZR. If you have not set the shared TRN yet, that is the VAT & Corporate Tax course first, then come back.
3. Write down where your last generated file went. Its hash, its generation date and who received it. Do it before anyone regenerates, because afterwards the first of those three is unrecoverable.

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This content is general information for UAE businesses, not tax, legal, or financial advice. Rules change and cases differ — speak to a qualified advisor about your situation. Specification facts verified 18 August 2026 against the FTA Requirements Document for Tax Accounting Software, October 2017.